\On Short-lived Strike Ewo Wharf Coolies Resume Work Unconditionally The labour situation threatened to deteriorate yesterday when the employees of the Taylor Garage struck at noon, but negotiations between the representatives of drivers and the management resulted in the former resuming work after less than two hours of idleness, Another dispute, between coolies of the S.M.C. Health Department and the administration, was settled, with the coolies returning to work yesterday morning.
The strike of the Taylor Garage employees came as a surprise since, it was leamed yesterday, the drivers had been granted an increase just a few days ago. It was said that the managements of the four major garages here, namely the Taylor, John-gon, Ford and Silver garages, had asked for an increase a few days ago and were granted such by the managers.
The garbage coolies of the S.M.C. Health Department, about 200 in number, returned to work yesterday morning after striking for about one day. Other disputes, however, re mained without change. [These included the Commercial Press, with more than 1,000 workers involved, Millers Transportation Ca. with about 70 drivers on strike, end the Foh Shing Tobacco Ca, in Macao Road, where several hundred male and female workers declared a strike exactly a month ago. A minor strike, that of the Sang Li Chang Iron Works in Route J. Prentice, was also unset-fled yester "Wharf coolies of the Ewo Cotton Mill in Yangtszepoo, with the exception of the 29 detained in connection with the fracas at the mill two weeks ago, resumed work yesterday. as far as it could be ascertained, the strikers returned unconditionally.
Tur vagaries of censors is amply iliuxtrated in the following—Messrs G. P. Putnam's Sons, the publishers of Winston S. Churchill's "Blood, Sweat, and Tears" state that the final material for the Prime Minis-ler's book when it arrived in New York, was opened and examined by -the British censor. while the John Day Company received the last chapters of "Toward Freedom: The Autobiography of Jawaharlal Nehru" from the great Indian leader. who is in jail for political reasons, with a stamp on the envelope "Not Opened by Censor."
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